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MIDDIAN Forced To Change Name, Dropped by METAL BLADE
MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, has issued the following update: "So, we had a hell of a time finding a name. When MIDDIAN was suggested, we did a search and found nothing out there. So we went ahead and called ourselves MIDDIAN. However, in October, we received a cease-a...December 17, 2007
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MIDDIAN To Release 'Age Eternal' On Double 12" Vinyl
MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will have its "Age Eternal" album released on double 12" vinyl on July 30 via Land O Smiles. It has a gatefold cover and the pressing is limited to 500 on 180-gram vinyl. Land O Smiles is accepting pre-orders for the record at this ...June 28, 2007
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MINSK Debuts New Video
MINSK has debuted the first video from its brand new album "The Ritual Fires of Abandonment", for the track "White Wings", exclusively via Singingfool.com. The clip was shot and directed by Josh Oliver for Graveyard Machine Films. MINSK is currently rounding out its western U.S tour with MIDDIAN (fe...June 8, 2007
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MINSK Announces West Coast Tour
MINSK has announced its first western U.S. run in support of its brand new album, "The Ritual Fires of Abandonment". MINSK will kick off the tour with an appearance at the annual Emissions from the Monolith Festival, being held for the first time in Austin, TX the weekend of May 26-27. From there th...April 30, 2007
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MIDDIAN: In-Store Performance, Signing Session Scheduled
MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will take part in an in-store performance and signing session on Friday, April 6 at 8:00 p.m. at CD World in Eugene, Oregon. MIDDIAN just released its debut album, "Age Eternal", via Metal Blade Records. In 2005, Mike Scheidt, founding memb...March 31, 2007
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Age Eternal
Mike Scheidt may have been the guitarist and vocalist of revered northwest U.S. space-doom freaks YOB, but the opening track of his new band's debut seems determined to highlight the differences between his earlier outfit and MIDDIAN. "Dreamless Eye" crashes out of the gate with a fast, aggressive,...March 26, 2007
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Former YOB Leader To Release MIDDIAN Debut In March
MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will release its debut album, "Age Eternal", in Europe on March 26 via Metal Blade Records (March 23 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland). MIDDIAN is Mike Scheidt - Guitar and Vocals Will Lindsay - Bass and Vocals Scott Headrick - Drums "Ag...January 12, 2007
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Ex-YOB Frontman Resurfaces In MIDDIAN: Audio Available
MIDDIAN, the band that features former YOB frontman Mike, has put one of the pre-mastered tracks ("Dreamless Eye") from its debut CD on its MySpace page. "Age Eternal", the band's debut, is scheduled for a late April worldwide release via Metal Blade Records. ORANGE GOBLIN singer Ben Ward makes an a...November 23, 2006
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ORANGE GOBLIN: U.K. Dates Announced
British doomsters ORANGE GOBLIN will team up with legendary U.S. heavyweights SOLACE as main support for a U.K. tour in May 2007. Confirmed dates are as follows: May 11 - London, The Underworld May 12 - Southampton, Joiners May 13 - Bristol, Bierkeller (w/Gonga) May 14 - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach May...November 16, 2006
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ORANGE GOBLIN: In Writing Mode
British doomsters ORANGE GOBLIN have begun writing material for their new album, tentatively due next May via Sanctuary Records. Four tracks have already been completed and lots of ideas are coming together. The band says that the next record will definitely be a progression from 2004's "Thieving fr...November 15, 2006
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Dark Songs of the Prairie
Lonesome winds howl, animals shiver in dank burrows, dust chokes dry river beds… the world of ACROSS TUNDRAS is a bleak, desolate prairie, inhospitable to travelers and as grim in its own way as any snow-choked Scandinavian forest. Somewhere between doom, sludge, the art-ravaged psych crunge of YOB,...September 24, 2006
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JOE FRANCO, EDDIE OJEDA, JOE LYNN TURNER: Photos And Audio Posted Online
TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 48 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. The episode features an interview with Joe Franco (ex-TWISTED SISTER, WIDOWMAKER) and Eddie Ojeda (TWISTED SISTER) plus a short ID from former DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW frontman Joe Lynn Turner. Interview topics include Franco's...March 6, 2006
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YOB Call It Quits
Eugene, Oregon-based doom metal band YOB have called it quits. An official statement from the group's founding member Mike Scheidt reads as follows: "I regret to say that YOB is disbanding after almost 10 years of existence. The time we spent with YOB exceeded our wildest expectations and hopes and...January 12, 2006
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The Galilean Satellites
Probably not the most festive Christmas music you could think of here, although you could keep your father busy for a while by getting him to sync up two stereos to play these two discs simultaneously, for the full effect of the work. Of course, then you'd have your grandmother pissing herself as sh...December 12, 2005
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REB BEACH, STEPHEN PEARCY, KIP WINGER Audio Interviews Posted Online
StriglsMusicNews.com has posted episode 20 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. The episode is the first of a three part series spotlighting the VH1 Classic's "Metal Mania: Stripped Across America Tour 2005". Included in this episode are interviews co-host John Ostronomy conducted with Reb Beach (Kip W...November 21, 2005
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